According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows:

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA, 2024), pp. 340–42, doi:10.2307/jj.19341356.79

This is how standard MHRA style would look. Some of its book series (notably Legenda) allow an alternative citation system called 'author-date', but please talk to your editor before using it. (To see the demonstration for author-date, follow this link.)

Let's take this bibliography entry one step at a time:

Step 1. We start with the name(s) of the author(s) of the article, inverting the first name into the form 'Forename, Surname'.

Patten, William

Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma.

Patten, William,

Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’

Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so:

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in

Step 5. Next we identify where the article is to be found, using italics, not quotation marks, for the volume title.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633

Step 6. After the title come any editors or translators. It's 'ed. by', not 'ed by', because although 'ed.' abbreviates 'edited', we regard the 'd' as the second letter of 'edited', not the last: so the abbreviation doesn't contain the last letter, and thus must have a full stop '.'

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin

Step 7. This book belongs to a series, so we'll name that. If the series is numbered, we give the number, too. No italics, no quotation marks in the series name.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19

Step 8. Since this is a book, not a journal issue, we have to identify its source, in round brackets. Until 2024, MHRA style required a place of publication - for example, New York or Oxford. This is no longer given except in special circumstances.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (

Step 9. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Abbreviating to 'MHRA' is fine here.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA

Step 10. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA, 2024)

Step 11. Now the pagination. And we use 'p.' or 'pp.' as appropriate. Number ranges are elided in the last two digits: thus '2234-2265' should be '2234-65', and '102-109' should be '102-09'.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA, 2024), pp. 340–42

Step 12. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so.

Patten, William, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA, 2024), pp. 340–42, doi:10.2307/jj.19341356.79

And that's the finished bibliography entry. Note that there's no final full stop.

So how about citations in footnotes or endnotes?

In standard MHRA style, the first time the work is cited in a note, it should be cited in full. This looks very like a Bibliography entry, but:

• The author's name doesn't always come first: only for monographs. For collections and editions, the title comes first.
• Even if the author's name does come first, it's back to being the right way round, so it's Forename Surname, not Surname, Forename;
• Unlike Bibliography entries, notes are punctuated as sentences, and usually end in full stops.

Suppose we want to cite a passage on pages 24 to 27:

³⁴ See William Patten, ‘Anno foelicissimi regni augustae reginae nostrae Elizabeth quadragesimo primo, fauste iam incepto.: psal. terseptimus: domine in virtute tua (1598) [‘In the Forty-First Year, Already Promisingly Begun, of the Most Happy Reign of Our August Queen Elizabeth.’, in The Psalms in English 1530–1633, ed. by Hannibal Hamlin, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 19 (MHRA, 2024), pp. 340–42, doi:10.2307/jj.19341356.79, pp. 24-27.

But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used:

³⁷ Compare Patten, p. 17.