The British Journal of Nursing Studies appears in a wide range of abstracting and indexing databases, and is covered by numerous other services, as given in the full list below.

• EBSCO
• CINAHL Ultimate - EBSCO
• Crossref
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP Index)
• Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD)
• Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI)
• CNKI Scholar
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• Sherpa/Romeo
• Dimensions 
• Scite
• J-Gate
• Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI)
• CLOCKSS 
• Index Copernicus
• LOCKSS
• General Impact Factor (GIF)
• Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI)
• CiteFactor
• EuroPub