I'm at the moment editing a paper of mine for submission and I'm checking each of the reference for correctness e.g. correctly citing the works, correctly citing who says what, etc.

omg...

SOOOO many references to checkl! *screams*. lol.

Any tips to stay motivated to do this mundane work >.<

Remember the "grass is always greener"! I prefer mundane work over thinking and then when I'm doing mundane reference checking I prefer thinking! At least ref checking is more relaxing and can be done with music :)

one of my papers has nine pages of references; i was enjoying movies at the same time... :)