diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 33ea0f3..c8db563 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ An example mapping configuration:
     name="signup_events"
     provider="$2"
     outcome="$3"
-    job="$1_server"
+    job="${1}_server"
     
 This would transform these example StatsD metrics into Prometheus metrics as
 follows:
diff --git a/mapper_test.go b/mapper_test.go
index 68d02c6..8c7a0e2 100644
--- a/mapper_test.go
+++ b/mapper_test.go
@@ -60,6 +60,34 @@ func TestMetricMapper(t *testing.T) {
 				"foo.bar.baz": map[string]string{},
 			},
 		},
+		// Config with bad regex reference.
+		{
+			config: `
+				test.*
+				name="name"
+				label="$1_foo"
+			`,
+			mappings: map[string]map[string]string{
+				"test.a": map[string]string{
+					"name":  "name",
+					"label": "",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		// Config with good regex reference.
+		{
+			config: `
+				test.*
+				name="name"
+				label="${1}_foo"
+			`,
+			mappings: map[string]map[string]string{
+				"test.a": map[string]string{
+					"name":  "name",
+					"label": "a_foo",
+				},
+			},
+		},
 		// Config with bad metric line.
 		{
 			config: `