diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
index 26de68f5f..190ba1d31 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DocBook.hs
@@ -794,11 +794,10 @@ parseBlock (Elem e) =
         "titleabbrev" -> skip
         "authorinitials" -> skip
         "bibliography" -> sect 0
-        "bibliodiv" -> do
-           tit <- case filterChild (named "title") e of
-                    Just _  -> sect 1
-                    Nothing -> return mempty
-           (tit <>) <$> parseMixed para (elContent e)
+        "bibliodiv" ->
+          case filterChild (named "title") e of
+            Just _  -> sect 1
+            Nothing -> return mempty
         "biblioentry" -> parseMixed para (elContent e)
         "bibliomisc" -> parseMixed para (elContent e)
         "bibliomixed" -> parseMixed para (elContent e)
diff --git a/test/command/docbook-bibliography.md b/test/command/docbook-bibliography.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..37ac05b30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/docbook-bibliography.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f docbook -t native --quiet
+<bibliodiv>
+<title>Document References</title>
+<bibliomixed>
+<bibliomisc><anchor xml:id="refTheFirst" xreflabel="[1]"/>[1] First reference</bibliomisc>
+</bibliomixed>
+<bibliomixed>
+<bibliomisc><anchor xml:id="refTheSecond" xreflabel="[2]"/>[2] Second reference</bibliomisc>
+</bibliomixed>
+<bibliomixed>
+<bibliomisc><anchor xml:id="refTheThird" xreflabel="[3]"/>[3] Third reference</bibliomisc>
+</bibliomixed>
+</bibliodiv>
+^D
+[Header 1 ("",[],[]) [Str "Document",Space,Str "References"]
+,Para [Span ("refTheFirst",[],[]) [],Str "[1]",Space,Str "First",Space,Str "reference"]
+,Para [Span ("refTheSecond",[],[]) [],Str "[2]",Space,Str "Second",Space,Str "reference"]
+,Para [Span ("refTheThird",[],[]) [],Str "[3]",Space,Str "Third",Space,Str "reference"]]
+```