diff --git a/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/elasticsearch.ipynb b/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/elasticsearch.ipynb
index 0cf0cb146b..2cf6b28242 100644
--- a/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/elasticsearch.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/elasticsearch.ipynb
@@ -736,6 +736,50 @@
     "```"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "05cdb43d-5e46-46f6-a2dc-91df4aa56ec7",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## BM25RetrievalStrategy\n",
+    "This strategy allows the user to perform searches using pure BM25 without vector search.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "To use this, specify `BM25RetrievalStrategy` in `ElasticsearchStore` constructor.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Note that in the example below, the embedding option is not specified, indicating that the search is conducted without using embeddings."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "id": "4464a657-08c5-4a1a-b0e8-dba65f5b7ec0",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "[Document(page_content='foo'), Document(page_content='foo bar'), Document(page_content='foo bar baz')]\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "from langchain_elasticsearch import ElasticsearchStore\n",
+    "\n",
+    "db = ElasticsearchStore(\n",
+    "    es_url=\"http://localhost:9200\",\n",
+    "    index_name=\"test_index\",\n",
+    "    strategy=ElasticsearchStore.BM25RetrievalStrategy(),\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "db.add_texts(\n",
+    "    [\"foo\", \"foo bar\", \"foo bar baz\", \"bar\", \"bar baz\", \"baz\"],\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "results = db.similarity_search(query=\"foo\", k=10)\n",
+    "print(results)"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "id": "0960fa0a",
@@ -993,7 +1037,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.9.7"
+   "version": "3.11.8"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,