If you use sba in your published work, you should include a reference to the following paper (bibtex entry):
@article{lour09,
author="M.I. A. Lourakis and A.A. Argyros",
title="{SBA: A Software Package for Generic Sparse Bundle Adjustment}",
journal="ACM Trans. Math. Software",
volume="36",
number="1",
year="2009",
pages="1-30",
publisher="ACM",
address="New York, NY, USA",
doi="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1486525.1486527"
}
A local copy of the paper is here.