To cite package ‘curatedMetagenomicData’ in publications use:

  Pasolli E, Schiffer L, Manghi P, Renson A, Obenchain V, Truong D,
  Beghini F, Malik F, Ramos M, Dowd J, Huttenhower C, Morgan M, Segata
  N, Waldron L (2017). “Accessible, curated metagenomic data through
  ExperimentHub.” _Nat. Methods_, *14*(11), 1023-1024. ISSN 1548-7091,
  1548-7105. doi:10.1038/nmeth.4468
  <https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4468>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {Accessible, curated metagenomic data through {ExperimentHub}},
    author = {Edoardo Pasolli and Lucas Schiffer and Paolo Manghi and Audrey Renson and Valerie Obenchain and Duy Tin Truong and Francesco Beghini and Faizan Malik and Marcel Ramos and Jennifer B Dowd and Curtis Huttenhower and Martin Morgan and Nicola Segata and Levi Waldron},
    journal = {Nat. Methods},
    volume = {14},
    number = {11},
    pages = {1023--1024},
    month = {oct},
    year = {2017},
    language = {en},
    issn = {1548-7091, 1548-7105},
    pmid = {29088129},
    doi = {10.1038/nmeth.4468},
    pmc = {PMC5862039},
  }