diff --git a/scribble-lib/scriblib/bibtex.rkt b/scribble-lib/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
index 2b62393091..35c2375ba3 100644
--- a/scribble-lib/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
+++ b/scribble-lib/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
@@ -125,14 +125,28 @@
   (define (read-braced-value ip)
     (read-char ip)
     (let loop ()
-      (define first-part (read-until (λ (c) (or (char=? c #\{) (char=? c #\})))
+      (define first-part (read-until (λ (c) (or (char=? c #\{) (char=? c #\})
+                                                (char=? c #\\)))
                                      ip))
       (match (peek-char ip)
         [#\{
-         (string-append first-part (read-value ip) (loop))]
+         (string-append first-part (read-braced-value ip) (loop))]
         [#\}
          (read-char ip)
-         first-part])))
+         first-part]
+        [#\\
+         (read-char ip)
+         (string-append first-part (read-maybe-bibtex-escape ip) (loop))])))
+
+  (define (read-maybe-bibtex-escape ip)
+    (match (peek-char ip)
+      [#\#
+       (read-char ip)
+       "#"]
+      [_
+       ;; unknown escape; probably latex
+       "\\"]))
+
 
   (define (read-value ip)
     (slurp-whitespace ip)
diff --git a/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.escapes.txt b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.escapes.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ece211c9a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.escapes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Bibliography
+
+[1]A A\"uthor. Foo Bar $\Sigma$. fake, 2003. example.com#tag       
+[2]S. Hochreiter and J. Schmidhuber. Long Short-Term Memory. Neural
+   Computation 9(8), pp. 1735–1780, 1997.                          
diff --git a/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.rkt b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
index a73089ef9a..4ec6d91c5b 100644
--- a/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
+++ b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/bibtex.rkt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 (define-runtime-path normal-expected-path "bibtex.normal.txt")
 (define-runtime-path number-expected-path "bibtex.number.txt")
+(define-runtime-path escapes-expected-path "bibtex.escapes.txt")
 
 (define-syntax-rule (test-render* definer expected-path body generate-bibliography-id)
   (let ()
@@ -73,4 +74,9 @@
               (λ (~cite-id citet-id)
                 (citet-id "salib:starkiller")
                 (citet-id "cryptoeprint:2000:067")
-                (citet-id "Tobin-Hochstadt:2011fk"))))
+                (citet-id "Tobin-Hochstadt:2011fk")))
+
+ (test-render escapes-expected-path (#:style number-style)
+              (λ (~cite-id citet-id)
+                (citet-id "escape1")
+                (citet-id "hochreiter_long_1997"))))
diff --git a/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/example.bib b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/example.bib
index 9d5d44b0e0..b29c720d69 100644
--- a/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/example.bib
+++ b/scribble-test/tests/scriblib/example.bib
@@ -405,3 +405,11 @@ @mastersthesis{salib:starkiller
   month = "May",
   year = 2004
 }
+
+@article{escape1,
+     author = {A A\"uthor},
+     title  = "{Foo} {Bar} $\Sigma$",
+     year   = 2003,
+     journal = "fake",
+     url    = {example.com\#tag},
+}
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