Problem with citation insertion?

Question

I hoping someone can help me with what I am sure is a noob problem. I am simply trying to insert a citation from BibDesk into a LaTeX document. My MWE looks like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

\begin{document}

\section{test}
test cite should be here: \cite{brown08}.

\bibliography{cvpubs.bib}

\end{document}

My bib file is called cvpubs.bib and is in the same directory as the above MWE LaTeX document. The cvpubs.bib file looks like this:

@article{brown08,
    Author = {Seth Brown and Michael Cole and Albert Erives},
    Date-Added = {2011-10-22 21:01:18 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2011-10-22 21:57:01 +0000},
    Journal = {BMC Genomics},
    Keywords = {evolution, myc},
    Month = {September},
    Number = {442},
    Rating = {5},
    Read = {1},
    Title = {Evolution of the holozoan ribosome biogenesis regulon},
    Volume = {9},
    Year = {2008}}

Thanks in advance for the help!

Answer 1

Try

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[OT1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\begin{filecontents*}{bibentry-example-02.bib}
@Book{abramowitz,
 author    = "Milton {Abramowitz} and Irene A. {Stegun}",
 title     = "Handbook of Mathematical Functions with
              Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables",
 publisher = "Dover",
 year      =  1964,
 address   = "New York",
 edition   = "ninth Dover printing, tenth GPO printing"
}
@article{brown08,
    Author = {Seth Brown and Michael Cole and Albert Erives},
    Date-Added = {2011-10-22 21:01:18 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2011-10-22 21:57:01 +0000},
    Journal = {BMC Genomics},
    Keywords = {evolution, myc},
    Month = {September},
    Number = {442},
    Rating = {5},
    Read = {1},
    Title = {Evolution of the holozoan ribosome biogenesis regulon},
    Volume = {9},
    Year = {2008}}
\end{filecontents*}
\nobibliography*  
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
This will give you a full entry (bibentry is used for that) :\\
\bibentry{abramowitz}. 
Use this for citations \cite{abramowitz}\cite{brown08}
\bibliography{bibentry-example}
\end{document}  

The bibentry package is normally used to quote full entries. For this you need to issue the command bibentry.