Bibtex is not working in windows

Question

my example code is not working with Windows and MiKTeX. I don't know why. I try to compile my bibliography with bibtex:

@UNPUBLISHED{bibtex.a,
author = "Oren Patashnik",
title = "{{\BibTeX}ing}",
note = "Documentation for general {\BibTeX} users",
month = "8$^{th}$~" # feb,
language = "USenglish",
year = 1988, }

This is the tex Code

\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}

Test\cite{bibtex.a}.
\bibliography{verzeichnis1}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document

I am doing the latex - bibtex - Latex - Latex commands on both Systems.

Answer 1

Well, added the missing } in your code I can compile your code with one error. This error shows that command \BibTeX is not defined in your code or you do not call a package defining it.

So I added the code

\newcommand{\BibTeX}{Bib\TeX}

to define \BibTeX.

The following Code compiles without error and only one warning (okay, package filecontents is only used here to have bib file and TeX code in one MWE):

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@UNPUBLISHED{bibtex.a,
  author = "Oren Patashnik",
  title = "{{\BibTeX}ing}",
  note = "Documentation for general {\BibTeX} users",
  month = "8$^{th}$~" # feb,
  language = "USenglish",
  year = 1988, 
}
\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{cite}
\newcommand{\BibTeX}{Bib\TeX} % <=======================================

\begin{document}

Test\cite{bibtex.a}.

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document} % <======================================================

results in the following pdf:

I'm using current MikTeX 2.9 on Windows.